Join us as a CICS Infrastructure Analyst
- Hone your analytical skills as you provide support to ensure the operational health of the platform, covering all aspects of service, risk, cost and people
- Specialising in Functional Consulting, you'll be supporting the platforms operational stability and technology performance, including maintaining any system's utilities and tools provided by the platform
- This is an opportunity to learn a variety of new skills in a constantly evolving environment, working closely with feature teams to continuously enhance your development
- We're offering this role at associate level
What you'll do
As CICS Infrastructure Analyst, you'll be supporting the team's activities to make sure that the platform integrity is maintained in line with technical roadmaps, while supporting change demands from domains or centres of excellence. You'll be contributing the delivery of a robust production management service for relevant infrastructure platforms.
In addition, you'll be contributing to the delivery of customer outcomes, innovation and early learning by contributing to test products and services to identify early on if they are viable and deliver the desired outcomes.
Your Role Will Involve
- Participating and seeking out opportunities to simplify the platform infrastructure, architecture, services and customer solutions, guarding against introducing new complexity
- Building relationships with platform, domain and relevant cross-domain stakeholders
- Identifying and consistently looking for continuous improvements of existing processes and procedures across production management disciplines, and establishing an environment of continual learning and feedback
- Constantly reviewing to make sure infrastructure are fully compliant to mandated standards by adhering to processes and security compliance
- Working closely with feature teams, understanding the upcoming changes and collaborating to prevent potential issues occurring
- Making sure that controls are applied and constantly reviewed, primarily against SOX, to ensure full compliance to all our policies and regulatory obligations
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you'll need to be a very capable communicator with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to colleagues, including management level. You'll need at least five years of experience in a CICS Systems programming on the IBM Mainframe platform, with strong hands-on expertise in CICS system programming and administration on CICS TS v5.1 and above. In this role, you will work extensively with CPSM or CICSPLEX, including workload management, BAS, and RTA, while demonstrating deep knowledge of CICS RDO and DFHCSD.
You'll need experinec in CICS problem determination, performance tuning, and troubleshooting using CICS Trace and DUMP, along with managing integrations involving CTG, Web Services, CICS-MQ, and CICS-DB2. Proficiency with tools such as CICSPA, CICS Explorer, SYSVIEW, and CA-Endevor will be essential, along with the ability to ensure system stability, optimize performance, and support critical mainframe environments.
We'll Also Look To You To Demonstrate
- Technical experience, including platform, technology, products and domains
- Knowledge of relevant industry standard toolsets and processes to drive up customer service within an IT environment
- Knowledge of development methodology and operational principles
- Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
